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The Portuguese and Spanish want to join in the Italians’ business through sea exploration, since the way to the East was blockeed by the Arabs through fall of Constantinople
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1425 | Henry the Navigator develops the caravel to be used to seek a sea route to the East |
| 1488 | Portuguese Bartolomeu Dias reaches Cape of Good Hope |
| 1492 | Italian Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas through Spanish support |
| 1498 | Portuguese Vasco da Gama reaches India |
| 1577 | Venice suffers from the Black Death while having lost its Eastern trade to the Portuguese |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada defeated by the British |
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